Reaction Pathway and Rate-Determining Step of the Schmidt Rearrangement/Fragmentation: A Kinetic Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (8) ◽  
pp. 4073-4078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Akimoto ◽  
Takehiro Tokugawa ◽  
Yutaro Yamamoto ◽  
Hiroshi Yamataka
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Study ◽  
Reaction Pathway ◽  
Rate Determining Step

Chemical Kinetic Study on Reaction Pathway of Anisole Oxidation at Various Operating Condition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shrabanti Roy ◽  
Omid Askari
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Study ◽  
Equivalence Ratio ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Reaction Pathway ◽  
Chemical Kinetic ◽  
Chemical Mechanism ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Stirred Reactor ◽  
Constant Volume Combustion Chamber

Abstract Biofuels are considered as an alternative source of energy which can decrease the growing consumption of fossil fuel, hence decreasing pollution. Anisole (methoxybenzene) is a potential source of biofuel produced from cellulose base compounds. It is mostly available as a surrogate of phenolic rich compound. Because of the attractive properties of this fuel in combustion, it is important to do detail kinetic study on oxidation of anisole. In this study a detail chemical mechanism is developed to capture the chemical kinetics of anisole oxidation. The mechanism is developed using an automatic reaction mechanism generator (RMG). To generate the mechanism, RMG uses some known set of species and initial conditions such as temperature, pressure, and mole fractions. Proper thermodynamic and reaction library is used to capture the aromaticity of anisole. The generated mechanism has 340 species and 2532 reactions. Laminar burning speed (LBS) calculated through constant volume combustion chamber (CVCC) at temperature ranges from 460–550 K, pressure of 2–3 atm and equivalence ratio of 0.8–1.4 is used to validate the generated mechanism. Some deviation with experimental result is observed with the newly generated mechanism. Important reaction responsible for LBS calculation, is selected through sensitivity analysis. Rate coefficient of sensitive reactions are collected from literature to modify and improve the mechanism with experimental result. The generated mechanism is further validated with available ignition delay time (IDT) results ranging from 10–20 atm pressure, 0.5–1 equivalence ratio and 870–1600 K temperature. A good agreement of results is observed at different operating ranges. Oxidation of anisole at stoichiometric condition and atmospheric pressure in jet stirred reactor is also used to compare the species concentration of the mechanism. This newly generated mechanism is considered as a good addition for further study of anisole kinetics.

Mechanism of bromination of a quaternary pyrimidinium cation. Change of rate determining step with acidity

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (23) ◽  
pp. 2970-2976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oswald S. Tee ◽  
David C. Thackray ◽  
Charles G. Berks
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Study ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Aqueous Media ◽  
Stopped Flow ◽  
Flow Method ◽  
High Acidity ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Good Agreement

The kinetics of bromination of the 1,2-dihydro-1,3-dimethyl-2-oxopyrimidinium cation (Q+) in aqueous media (pH 0–5) have been studied using the stopped-flow method. At the higher acidities (pH < 2) the results are consistent with rate determining attack by bromine upon the pseudobase (QOH), whereas at low acidities (pH > 4) it appears that pseudobase formation is rate determining. The change occurs because at high acidity the reversal of the pseudobase QOH to the cation is fast relative to bromine attack, whereas at low acidity the converse is true. Results obtained at intermediate acidities (pH 2–4) are consistent with this interpretation.A separate kinetic study of pseudobase formation (and decomposition) yielded rate constants in good agreement with those derived from the bromination study.

scholarly journals Mechanistic Insights into Water-Catalyzed Formation of Levoglucosenone from Anhydrosugar Intermediates by Means of High-Level Theoretical Procedures

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenchao Wan ◽  
Li-Juan Yu ◽  
Amir Karton
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Reaction Mechanism ◽  
Ring Opening ◽  
Reaction Pathway ◽  
Fast Pyrolysis ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Dehydration Reactions ◽  
High Level ◽  
Multistep Reaction ◽  
Hydration And Dehydration

Levoglucosenone (LGO) is an important anhydrosugar product of fast pyrolysis of cellulose and biomass. We use the high-level G4(MP2) thermochemical protocol to study the reaction mechanism for the formation of LGO from the 1,4:3,6-dianhydro-α-d-glucopyranose (DGP) pyrolysis intermediate. We find that the DGP-to-LGO conversion proceeds via a multistep reaction mechanism, which involves ring-opening, ring-closing, enol-to-keto tautomerization, hydration, and dehydration reactions. The rate-determining step for the uncatalyzed process is the enol-to-keto tautomerization (ΔG‡298 = 68.6 kcal mol–1). We find that a water molecule can catalyze five of the seven steps in the reaction pathway. In the water-catalyzed process, the barrier for the enol-to-keto tautomerization is reduced by as much as 15.1 kcal mol–1, and the hydration step becomes the rate-determining step with an activation energy of ΔG‡298 = 58.1 kcal mol–1.

EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE OF THE CATALYZED ISOMERIZATION OF NITROSOMETHANE TO FORMALDOXIME

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUO-MING LIANG ◽  
YI REN ◽  
SAN-YAN CHU ◽  
NING-BEW WONG
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Formic Acid ◽  
Energy Surface ◽  
Reaction Pathway ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Reaction Channels ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Favorable Reaction ◽  
The One

The mechanism of the isomerization of nitrosomethane to formaldoxime catalyzed by neutral molecule ( H 2 O and HCOOH ) has been investigated at the level of B3LYP/6-311+G**. Calculated results indicate that the rearrangement from nitrosomethane to more stable trans-formaldoxime can proceed via two different reaction channels, but the favorable reaction pathway catalyzed by water and formic acid is different from the one in the catalyst-free reaction. It is more favorable that the tautomeric reaction involves the formation of cis-formaldoxime and a subsequent rotation about the N – O bond to form trans-formaldoxime in the catalyzed reaction. The activation energy of rate-determining step was reduced from 197.9 kJ/mol to 138.7 kJ/mol in the water-catalyzed reaction and 79.6 kJ/mol in the formic acid-catalyzed reaction, respectively, due to the catalysis of hydroxylic groups, but the catalysis of more acidic hydroxyl group in the latter system has been shown to be more efficient.

scholarly journals Revealing Mechanism and Origin of Reactivity of Au(I)-Catalyzed Functionalized Indenone Formation of Cyclic and Acyclic Acetals of Alkynylaldehydes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqeel A. Hussein ◽  
Hafiz S. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Phenyl Ring ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Reaction Pathway ◽  
Phenyl Group ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Electron Withdrawing Group ◽  
Catalytic Cycles ◽  
Rate Limiting

<p><a>Density functional theory exploited with the (SMD)-B3LYP-D3/def2-TZVP//B3LYP/6-31G(d),LANL2DZ level of theory is presented to offer mechanistic insights and explications of experimentally intriguing observations in the Au(I)-catalyzed cyclization of cyclic and acyclic acetals of alkynylaldehydes that lead to indenone formation. The reactivity of catalytic cycles with and without methoxy migration is computationally defined when alkyne terminus is phenylated in addition to the unreactive cycle when alkyne terminus is not phenylated. The reaction mechanism of indenone formation proceeds first with coordination of Au(I) to alkyne to initiate the reaction with 1,5-H shift as a rate-determining step and the fastest 1,5-H shift is achieved when one phenyl ring carries electron-donating group and the other one is substituted with electron-withdrawing group. The absence of tethered acetal unit considerably outpaces any 1,5-H shift and instead activates 1,5-methoxy migration, giving methoxy-migrated indenone, with the step of 1,2-OMe shift is a rate-limiting step during reaction pathway. Following 1,5-H shift the cyclization and 1,2-H shift are kinetically and thermodynamically feasible, which are followed by elimination to persist the iterative cycle, but the reactivity of both steps is highly affected by the existence of phenyl group on alkyne terminus. The unreactivity of alkyne terminus being not beared a phenyl ring is due to that the cyclization is thermodynamically disfavorable, subsequently deactivating the 1,2-H shift kinetically and thermodynamically. </a></p>

scholarly journals Mechanism of the Highly Effective Peptide Bond Hydrolysis by MOF808 Catalyst Under Biologically Relevant Conditions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Conic ◽  
Kristine Pierloot ◽  
Tatjana Parac-Vogt ◽  
Jeremy Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Pathway ◽  
Metal Organic Framework ◽  
Peptide Bond ◽  
Binding Mode ◽  
Carbonyl Oxygen ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Selective Hydrolysis ◽  
Peptide Bonds ◽  
Biologically Relevant ◽  
Rate Determining Step

Efficient and selective hydrolysis of inert peptide bonds is of paramount importance. MOF-808, a metal-organic framework based on Zr6 nodes, can hydrolyze peptide bonds efficiently under biologically relevant conditions. However, the details of the catalyst structure and of the underlying catalytic reaction mechanism are challenging to establish. By means of DFT calculations we first investigate the speciation of the Zr6 nodes and identify the nature of ligands that bind to the Zr6O8H4-x core in aqueous conditions. The core is predicted to strongly prefer a Zr6O8H4 protonation state and to be predominantly decorated by bridging formate ligands, giving Zr6(μ3-O)4(μ3-OH)4(BTC)2(HCOO)6 and Zr6(μ3-O)4(μ3-OH)4(BTC)2(HCOO)5(OH)(H2O) as the most favorable structures at physiological pH. The GlyGly peptide can bind MOF in several different ways, with the preferred structure involving coordination through the terminal carboxylate analogously to the binding mode of formate ligand. The pre-reactive binding mode in which the amide carbonyl oxygen coordinates the metal core lies 7 kcal higher in free energy. The preferred reaction pathway is predicted to have two close-lying transition states, either of which could be the rate-determining step: nucleophilic attack on the amide carbon atom and C-N bond breaking, with calculated relative free energies of 31 and 32 kcal/mol, respectively. Replacement of formate by water and hydroxide at the Zr6 node is predicted to be possible, but does not appear to play a role in the hydrolysis mechanism.

scholarly journals Optimization and a Kinetic Study on the Acidic Hydrolysis of Dialkyl α-Hydroxybenzylphosphonates

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (17) ◽  
pp. 3793
Author(s):  
Nikoletta Harsági ◽  
Zita Rádai ◽  
Áron Szigetvári ◽  
János Kóti ◽  
György Keglevich
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Study ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Acidic Hydrolysis ◽  
First Order ◽  
Order Rate ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Pseudo First Order ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Electron Withdrawing Substituents

The two-step acidic hydrolysis of α-hydroxybenzylphosphonates and a few related derivatives was monitored in order to determine the kinetics and to map the reactivity of the differently substituted phosphonates in hydrolysis. Electron-withdrawing substituents increased the rate, while electron-releasing ones slowed down the reaction. Both hydrolysis steps were characterized by pseudo-first-order rate constants. The fission of the second P-O-C bond was found to be the rate-determining step.

scholarly journals Kinetic Study of the Herrmann–Beller Palladacycle-Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling of 4-Iodoacetophenone and Phenylboronic Acid

Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 989
Author(s):  
Amine Bourouina ◽  
Alexis Oswald ◽  
Valentin Lido ◽  
Lu Dong ◽  
Franck Rataboul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Study ◽  
Phenylboronic Acid ◽  
Sodium Methylate ◽  
Reaction Rates ◽  
Catalyst Stability ◽  
Initial Reaction ◽  
First Order ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Global Rate

This article presents an experimental kinetic study of the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction of 4-iodoacetophenone with phenylboronic acid catalyzed by the Herrmann–Beller palladacycle. This catalyst, together with the solvent (ethanol) and the base (sodium methylate), were chosen to ensure catalyst stability and reactants solubility all along the reaction. Based on the study of initial reaction rates, a quasi-first-order was found for 4-iodoacetophenone with a first-order dependence on the initial concentration of palladium. A zero-order was found for the base and the phenylboronic acid. The oxidative addition step of the mechanism was thus considered as the rate determining step. A global rate law was derived and validated quantitatively. A global activation energy, with an average value of ca. 63 kJ/mol was determined.

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